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To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
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Subject: Re: mbuf's 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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>>    The % number is a percentage of the peak, not of the maximum. It is
>> confusing and probably shouldn't be reported.
>> 
>
>So, do you mean that network buffers are allocated "on-demand"
>from the global mbuf pool and never deallocated?

   Never freed back to the global memory pool, but of course they are
freed back to the mbuf pool.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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